MANILA: Maoist rebels waging a decades-old insurgency in the Philippines expressed high hopes for peace Monday before talks in Norway next week, with guerrilla leaders set to be freed within days.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who won a landslide election victory in May, is seeking a political settlement to one of Asia's longest insurgencies which has claimed tens of thousands of lives since 1969.
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